The primary reason is because Transfer is not a "query abstraction tool" but an "object-relational mapping" tool. It is primarily meant to deal with objects. The fact that under the hood the state of the objects is stored in database tables is meant to be hidden.
On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 4:34 PM, Jorge Loyo <jorgel...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Thank you Brian and Doug, > > I guess his concern was that I was declaring relationships in the > transfer.xml and I could retrieve records with associated beans, but > not as a query with the associated columns. > > I guess trying to understand why not use the same relationship used in > transfer.xml to add the columns from the associated table to the query > returned instead of having to add a custom gateway method. > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Before posting questions to the group please read: http://groups.google.com/group/transfer-dev/web/how-to-ask-support-questions-on-transfer You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "transfer-dev" group. To post to this group, send email to transfer-dev@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to transfer-dev-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/transfer-dev?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
